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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday October 6, 2022.

I'm John Pudhortz, the editor of commentary, and I hope that all of the members of the tribe who are listening to me had an easy fast and a meaningful fast.

I myself had too much coffee at the breakfast and then was basically up all nights on the little punchy.

And so it was wonderful breakfast. Thank you to the breakfast for my breakfast, but I, but basically I'm a wreck.

It's not their fault. It was delicious. Duncan Donets coffee in one of those boxes. I love those boxes.

Those box coffee things, what an innovation that was when they, when that came, when that came to the four, it's like, it's like better than, you know, the iPad.

It's, they're so great. But, but too much coffee after like, you know, 36 hours of no coffee, it wasn't good.

Anyway, so join me in saying hello to my colleagues executive editor, a Greenwald Hyde.

Hi, John.

Media commentary columnist and AEI fellow Christine Rosenhyde Christine.

Hi, John.

And associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans, Noah Rossman. Hi, Noah.

Hi, John.

What a mess. What a mess we are in. I believe that revenge being a dish best served cold.

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia has just served some pretty cold revenge on the Obama Biden administration and on, and on Joe Biden for trying to make hey out of his, his behavior during his campaign.

Of course, a Biden went to Saudi Arabia this summer, met with Mohammed bin Salman and did him the incredible honor of giving him a fist bump, the fist bump being an implicit message that he was not going to hold.

And so, Mohammed bin Salman accountable in particular in a particular way for the murder of Adnan Kushoggi, the Saudi journalist propagandist who was killed at the Saudi consulate in Turkey.

And he changed for Saudi Arabia, sending, you know, opening the oil spigot to counter the rise in oil prices due to the Soviet invasion of Ukraine. And he did so for a while.

And then apparently yesterday, OPEC plus, which is OPEC.

And Russia, I guess is there more than OPEC in Russia, maybe Venezuela, I don't know who's, I don't know who up, not Venezuela. Anyway, OPEC plus decided to restrict its its oil production.

And I would say that the administration's response verges on panic and a sense that something absolutely terrible has happened to it politically, because not only did it immediately say it was disappointed, not only did, you know, have democratic officials and no we'll get to this in a bit.

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